Lagging ten years behind everybody else
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tilly_stratfordBut days of ash and cider
Are the good boy's last reward
‘Cause once they got you where they want you
They don’t want you anymore!
What's this? For once I enjoy the Norwegian entry to Eurovision Song Contest? What sort of strange parallel world have I been dumped into? (It doesn't help that I'm watching Inferno at the moment. Evil!Brig is a bit of a hunk though).
And I suppose this is as good time as any to come out of the closet and admit that for several years now, I've been dreaming about learning to play the fiddle. No really. Folk music is the shizznit.
In other news, isn't it weird how my definition of "old" is all screwed up? No, like how I can watch The Mark of Zorro from 1940 (oh yes the costumes and lighting and direction and sword fights ungh I LOVE IT), and I'm not in the least bit bothered by how it's more than half a century old. I wasn't born then anyway, at least I've seen it now.
BUT. Then I'm embarassed by the fact that today I finally saw the last episode of Cowboy Bebop. It took me two years to get through a series from the nineties, and I feel like I'm ages behind everybody else. So when I say it's brilliant, I suppose the rest of the world'll go "WE KNOW."
But yeah, it was pretty brilliant. The music, the animation, the plot... I wish there'd been more of Spike's Jeet Kune Do though. Seriously, I wouldn't have minded if there'd been a martial art style fight in every episode. And I wished they'd dropped off Ed sooner. And Fay for that matter, though she showed some potential for being an interesting character now and then. I'd settle for Spike and Jet: Space Marriage any day.
Ah, my legs hurt like whoa. I hiked to the top of Fløyen today once again, in wet snow. I bet it'll feel even worse tomorrow.
Are the good boy's last reward
‘Cause once they got you where they want you
They don’t want you anymore!
What's this? For once I enjoy the Norwegian entry to Eurovision Song Contest? What sort of strange parallel world have I been dumped into? (It doesn't help that I'm watching Inferno at the moment. Evil!Brig is a bit of a hunk though).
And I suppose this is as good time as any to come out of the closet and admit that for several years now, I've been dreaming about learning to play the fiddle. No really. Folk music is the shizznit.
In other news, isn't it weird how my definition of "old" is all screwed up? No, like how I can watch The Mark of Zorro from 1940 (oh yes the costumes and lighting and direction and sword fights ungh I LOVE IT), and I'm not in the least bit bothered by how it's more than half a century old. I wasn't born then anyway, at least I've seen it now.
BUT. Then I'm embarassed by the fact that today I finally saw the last episode of Cowboy Bebop. It took me two years to get through a series from the nineties, and I feel like I'm ages behind everybody else. So when I say it's brilliant, I suppose the rest of the world'll go "WE KNOW."
But yeah, it was pretty brilliant. The music, the animation, the plot... I wish there'd been more of Spike's Jeet Kune Do though. Seriously, I wouldn't have minded if there'd been a martial art style fight in every episode. And I wished they'd dropped off Ed sooner. And Fay for that matter, though she showed some potential for being an interesting character now and then. I'd settle for Spike and Jet: Space Marriage any day.
Ah, my legs hurt like whoa. I hiked to the top of Fløyen today once again, in wet snow. I bet it'll feel even worse tomorrow.
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Date: 2009-02-22 10:27 pm (UTC)Dude. The fiddle is awesome and it sounds great in that song. It's on my list of instruments to one day learn along with cello and the accordion because they all rock.
And I should watch Cowboy Bebop again. I started watching it a few years ago when it first aired here and then just forgot about it.
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Date: 2009-02-23 08:31 am (UTC)I always write fragmented entries, so what can you do? :-P
I grew up playing trumpet in the school band (and later in a rock band) for years and years, so maybe that's why I'm leaning more towards folk instrument these days. That's why I say I'd rather the fiddle as opposed to the violin.
I shold actually just go for it, I think. I come from a very musical family where just about everybody have their own instrument, and they're not happy with me quitting the trumpet ;-)
And ditto on the accordion, they're awesome. I know we've got my grandfather's one lying around somewhere... (There's a pump organ in my mum's house, but alas it's broken).
I can't say I'm into anime, but my ex is a weaboo and Cowboy Bebop was the one I enjoyed the most when we were an item, so that's the one I kept watching.